Top 100 Robin Hobb Quotes

#1. This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

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#2. You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

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#3. I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

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#4. I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.'
'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked.
Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet.

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#5. It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.

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#6. I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you.

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#7. Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

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#8. Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

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#9. In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face.

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#10. You have a wild young heart. Right now, it is like a caged bird that batters itself against the bars. To struggle harder will only hurt you more. Wait, be patient. Your time will come to fly. And when it does, you must be strong, not bloodied and weary.

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#11. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

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#12. I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

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#13. Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.

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#14. Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.

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#15. Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts.
Cats don not incur in debts.

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#16. We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

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#17. You should have asked me! You should have asked me!" I hated the tears that suddenly flooded my eyes and how my throat closed and choked me. I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less."
p. 501 Bee to Fitz

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#18. Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

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#19. As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

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#20. Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.

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#21. Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you?

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#22. Men cannot grieve as dogs do.

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#23. Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

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#24. Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

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#25. Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

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#26. None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

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#27. Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it.
Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.

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#28. Keeping a child from harm is not the same as rearing one.

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#29. Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

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#30. Die in your dreams, wake up insane.

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#31. Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.

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#32. What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world?

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#33. Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?

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#34. Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

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#35. Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour.

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#36. Instead, we must focus on our hopes. If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.

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#37. All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be quiet.

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#38. There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.

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#39. Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man's hands and heart, and later by his head.

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#40. Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

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#41. A catalyst was DarAles for his time, a changer of hearts and lives. He came not to be hero, but to enable the hero in others. He came, not to fulfill prophesies, but to open the doors to new futures. Such is ever the task of the catalyst.

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#42. Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.

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#43. We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world. To reach out and hold in place the tiny pebble that could trigger the boulder's tumbling.

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#44. Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that.

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#45. The sheer improbability of your existence took my breath away.

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#46. But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

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#47. Malta," he said, and smiled. "Possibly the most annoying young female I've ever encountered. Yet lovely. I named a horse after her. Do you remember?

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#48. Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who

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#49. You are confusing plumbing and love again.

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#50. I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

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#51. She is dead. Dead so many years. Who could imagine that death lasts so much longer than life?

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#52. He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.

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#53. I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will.

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#54. Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

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#55. I have to let you go,' he said in a cracked whisper. 'While I can. Leave me that, Fitz. That I broke the bond. That I did not take what was not mine.

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#56. Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.

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#57. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding. I

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#58. All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

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#59. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

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#60. Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.

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#61. The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.

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#62. The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence;

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#63. That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

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#64. They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought ... who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks. So they refer to it: wizardwood.

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#65. To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.

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#66. Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire.

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#67. I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.
I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

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#68. There are moments that change the course of one's lifetime, and often we don't realize how significant those initial may be until years pass.

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#69. She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

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#70. I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

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#71. If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

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#72. Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.

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#73. How could the whole world not be as broken as I was?

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#74. Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I

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#75. We were one thing. Whole.

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#76. Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person.

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#77. Coming up. A large tawny cat announced this to me at the same moment that he effortlessly elevated onto my lap. I stared at him in surprise.

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#78. Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

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#79. Dawn came as early as it always does,

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#80. They all need the others to say, yes, yes, this is what we should be doing, it's worth the risk. And now that they've decided it, the decision is bigger than all of them. Not one of them could turn back on their own.

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#81. Pain is the coin they use now in all their transactions. Nothing else teaches them, nothing else will satisfy them.

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#82. The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

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#83. Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

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#84. When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

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#85. The carriageway to the front door was wide, and graceful white birches lined it. In autumn they shed a carpet of gold on the road, and in winter, burdened with snow, they arched over it, a frosted white tunnel paned with glimpses of blue sky.

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#86. The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.

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#87. Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.

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#88. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me. As

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#89. Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow.

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#90. A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.

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#91. When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

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#92. I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

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#93. Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

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#94. It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.

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#95. Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.

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#96. It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you. -FitzChivalry Farseer

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#97. As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy ... all of it, through his or her eyes.

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#98. Is there nothing private anymore?" "Only the things we keep from ourselves," she replied sadly. She

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#99. It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

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#100. And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

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